ST1G's s52 OBDII Calypsorot

[ST1G]

I am liking the effort you're putting into this calypso already, makes me want to go out and work on mine!

DO. IT.

I love avoiding doing homework and working on mine.

Glad to see you got it all figured out in such a short amount of time.

I"m ready to drive it! There isn't time to stand around.

Genius! Pure Genius!

Tim the machinist is a wizard.

[gome123]

Fixed. And it only cost me 1/2 of what I paid for the pan

Machinist tapped out the pan, made an aluminum plug, tapped the plug out to the stock oil plug size, and welded it in.

Can't wait to get it in.

Genius! Pure Genius!

[sam_]

Glad to see you got it all figured out in such a short amount of time.

[Zreberlcoe]

I am liking the effort you're putting into this calypso already, makes me want to go out and work on mine!

[ST1G]

The pan is in!!!!

Don't know what that yellow/green is. Wasn't there when the image was taken.





Studs are fantastic.


Nothing better than working at night.

[ST1G]

Hell yeah! Way to turn that problem into a solution real quick.

thanks mate, I'm glad I got it done inexpensive and rather quickly.

^ this

well done sir.

Appreciate the kind words.

[bradnic]

^ this

well done sir.

[kid325e]

Hell yeah! Way to turn that problem into a solution real quick.

[ST1G]

Fixed. And it only cost me 1/2 of what I paid for the pan

Machinist tapped out the pan, made an aluminum plug, tapped the plug out to the stock oil plug size, and welded it in.

Can't wait to get it in.

[sam_]

damn, thats too bad. sorry to hear that, man!

[ST1G]

A pan is cheap. Don't be impatient. Get one that's right. I wouldn't, because I do everything the hard way. But of you're smart, you'll wait for a correct pan. Sorry Stiggy.

Yeah, I know :( I'm just a little peeved. I'm contemplating going and pulling one from the yard, but after I add up the cost of driving there, spending my only day off pulling it, and paying for it I don't know if it's worth it.

I agree though, no sense using a mediocre part for this.

Need a pan? I got a pan.

Granted it won't ship until Monday. :/

PM'd.

[slammin.e28]

Need a pan? I got a pan.

Granted it won't ship until Monday. :/

[ajhostetter]

A pan is cheap. Don't be impatient. Get one that's right. I wouldn't, because I do everything the hard way. But of you're smart, you'll wait for a correct pan. Sorry Stiggy.

[ST1G]

Got my oil pan off tonight, man is it dirty under there. The gasket has been leaking about 10 years I'm sure.



Smashed it pretty good.




About 5 pounds of build up on the tranny skid. About 20-25mm thick.




Old pan came out without too much trouble. Took an hour from in the air, to pan out.There was some broken off gasket sucked up against the oil pump screen.



Got the gasket scrapped off the block, and razor bladed smooth and degreased. I went to put the pan I got this week on, and noticed the threads were a little buggered. I moved the oil plug over and noticed that the new pan I have has been re-tapped (poorly) to some new magic size :curse:

So now I'm at an impasse, if the threads weren't so poorly tapped I would just go get a new bolt. But, I'm worried that in a year I'm going to fuck the threads up during an oil change and have to go through all this again.

[Zreberlcoe]

Hmm. Well the body is a hard not to deal with because of how ridiculously expensive it is to fix right.